Multimedia:Flows

This page discusses a generic workflow system that could serve as a possible implementation of the Multimedia:Incomplete uploads.

Workflows we've identified on Wikimedia projects are basically of three types:

• issues that needs to be resolved
• tasks that should be done
• community processes.

We use the word "ticket" to refer to any of these types.

Issue management

Applicable workflows

• Incomplete uploads (only for user-specific view)
• Copyright issues (including obvious and suspected copyright violations)
• Inappropriate personally identifiable information (not a priority at the moment; maybe at some point an integrated system can be used to replace OTRS / mailing lists requests)
• Offensive content, nonsense
• Factual error
• Typography, grammar, spelling, conjugation

deletion & maintenance

• speedy deletion : common reasons and/or custom message
• RfD: same, longer rationale

• skim through Category:User_scripts and gadgets in Preferences

• Report an issue: Multimedia:"Report an issue" wizard / Create a ticket manually

Tasks

Applicable workflows

• tasks, todo lists ; assignment of tasks
• patrol of new pages (and new edits?)
• tasks: target date
• edit protected page
• double redirects
• links to disambiguation pages
• etc.

Processes

Applicable workflows

• content promotion (FP, QI; VP)
• OTRS confirmation

Commonalities & Interface

Commonalities

• rationale
• discussions
• link(s) to the page, preview of the file
• list / queue of items
• notification of the uploader / the creator of the page / people who edited the page the most / people watching the page
• expiry date / deadline; possibility to extend / renew
• batch actions?

Actions

• add / remove a template
• change a template's parameter
• add / remove a category
• change visibility settings
• send e-mail / e-mail reminder

• possible linked to permission keys

List / queue:

• aggregation of different Flows
• filtering (default options & customizability)
• sorting, filtering; lil icons
• blackboard of pending issues

• static vs custom flows

• Ticket creation
• Actions
• Queue / list

Raw notes from sketches

Actions (based on user rights)

• send e-mail
• add/remove template
• add/remove category
• add new message / section
• create new LQT thred

Todo: administration interface to add more flows

Filters

• default filters
• ability to create custom filters based on a set of criteria; e.g. "new articles in topic X", etc.

• Group by categories (content, links, users, categories, etc.)

• Add new ticket type (specify family / class / group)
• Add new group
• Add field (type, label)

Interface

Navigation menu

• sidebar or tabs (1 model, 2 views?)

User view

• Special:MyIssues
• subscribe to new tickets matching a set of criteria (e.g. new Deletion requests related to History)

Global view

• filtering by ticket type (issue, task, process)
• filtering by group (copyright, classification, links, etc.)
• filtering by topic (wikiproject or more general -- Arts, Science, etc.)

Administrative interface

• Administrative interface to create new ticket types, new groups, etc.
• new ticket type: should it be showed by default or rather added manually?

Sketches

• 
  Initial assessment
• 
  List of issues (user view)
• 
  Incomplete uploads (user view)
• 
  Incomplete uploads list, with batch changes (user view)
• 
  Issues list by type
• 
  Issues list by topic or WikiProject
• 
  Navigation menu for issues (tabs)
• 
  Navigation menu for issues (sidebar)
• 
  Navigation menus for tasks (tabs & sidebar)
• 
  Navigation menus for processes (tabs & sidebar)
• 
  Speedy and regular deletion requests - General view
• 
  Speedy and regular deletion requests - Discussion view
• 
  Speedy and regular deletion requests - Closing
• 
  Patrol of new items
• 
  Patrol of new items, with batch changes